A sense of disappointment and defeat is the essential state of mind for creative work
That is why art work is so very hard. It is a working through disappointments to greater disappointment and a growing recognition of failure to the point of defeat
‘Defeated’ is the position from which to have something to say, to rise [...]
Posts Tagged ‘modern art’
Agnes Martin on disappointment
Louise Bourgeois: 1911-2010
May 31st
Guggenheim In memory of Louise Bourgeois, who died today at 98. View the online exhibition from her 2008 retrospective: http://ow.ly/1Scjq
June 1st
nytimes Louise Bourgeois, Artist and Sculptor, Is Dead http://nyti.ms/clCkXm
thebookslut “I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful.” – [...]
Artist Rooms: Agnes Martin, Edinburgh National Galleries, review at White Hot Magazine
ARTIST ROOMS: Agnes Martin, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
6 August – 8 November, 2009
Writing on the dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s deliberate rejection of photogenic poses in the 1960s, Carrie Lambert focuses on the absence of image as an ethical practice. Lambert reads Rainer’s incremental dance moves as a refusal of the ephemeral, [...]
